After clarifying what belongs here, I have my question: how is best to handle GW aggro from the midrange side? No amount of Thragtusk and Angels will be able to neuter a creature that keeps swinging for 6 - 8 with doublestrike and trample. Since Supreme Verdict isn't available to us, what to bring in? Both Terminus and Celestial Cleansing come too late and Oblivion Ring is too slow for my taste. Is it too janky to try Divine Reckoning? I have found that with enough time to stabilize Ulvenwald Tracker dominates the board and even neutralizes Rancor, but their fastest draws (turn 2 Silverblade, turn 3 Sublime) can't be stopped with him.

If Limited gets in the way of printing good Constructed cards...
Screw limited

@Javert, you my friend need 4 copies of Selesyna Charm, The Same Card that can Power the "GW" Aggro deck is the same Card that works well to undo it! Oh... You want to attack with a 8/8 double strike trample, You can put that over there out of the game now. Thanks! lol definately my answer to that.

I'm experimenting a bit; that's why there's one Garruk and one Sigarda. I'll go one way or another once I get enough mileage out this thing to decide which works better. I may also chuck both for Wolfir Silverheart!

A big question for me is Silverblade Paladin. I do love my Elephant guy, but I also love double-strike.

Thanks. It's gone 3-1 the two times I've played it at FNM. I'm really hoping to find a little more somewhere to get over the top once.

You won't talk me down on Ray; people around here play Obilvion Ring and Detention Sphere like mad. Ray won a game for me last time out.

Rest in Peace is probably getting the old heave-ho anyway; it's mainly anti-Zombie tech and this deck isn't scared of Zombies anyway. Thalia, Guardian of Thraben is probably going to replace RiP.

I'll probably also try Silverblade in placed of Healer and one each of two of the spells. Healer is super against some matchups, and I may put him in the board in place of the Knight, but Silverblade is such a beat-stick. I guess it comes down to the mana; I think it'll support Silverblade.

Garruk in the deck is awesome no matter what match up he's against, against control he applies presure, against aggro he protects and chumps me and himself, his -3 is nice for more fuel and his final is GG.

What I wonder is, Trostani. Is she too cute for the deck? I can abuse ALL of her abilities quite well.

The problem I have is control; Garruk should help, Thalia should help, but perhaps Silverblade will help the most by cranking up the damage. Is Rootborn Defenses worthwhile as a side-board card to cope with Divine Verdict? Should Thalia go maindeck?

What sort of recommendation do you have for side-boarding in practice? I'm especially interested in the control match-up.

Another question; does anyone think a couple copies of Revenge of the Hunted is a good idea? I must confess, the idea of swinging for 20 on turn three is appealing, however rarely it would occur in practice.

For the control matchup I was running 3 Thalia in,my deck. But after one board wipe she is gone. Regardless of the 1 extra mana that needs to be paid, she is gone. So I switched her out and run 4 Strangleroot Giest instead, and it helps so much because they can survive to anything that doesn't remove them from the game. Also, when playing against co trol you know they will boardwipe. Don't lay more then two creatures at a time, more if it still leaves you with a couple in your hand to play and start bashing face with after the wipe. I have also started running 3Faith's Shield in my SB instead of knight of glory because it helps to save your creatures from spot removal, or makes it so certain creatures can't block yours for that final hit. I used to run 4 centaur healers because of zombies, but they became thalia's and now strangleroot giests based off what have been the nasty decks to beat. That's what is so nkce about the meta right now....no deck is the absolute king lime the last standard rotation.

The problem I have is control; Garruk should help, Thalia should help, but perhaps Silverblade will help the most by cranking up the damage. Is Rootborn Defenses worthwhile as a side-board card to cope with Divine Verdict? Should Thalia go maindeck?

What sort of recommendation do you have for side-boarding in practice? I'm especially interested in the control match-up.

Another question; does anyone think a couple copies of Revenge of the Hunted is a good idea? I must confess, the idea of swinging for 20 on turn three is appealing, however rarely it would occur in practice.

I tried adding in blue, but it really didn't make it better. Also, against RDW and Zombies (RB or GB), GW aggro/midrange plays far superior quality creatures, even though Zombies has by far the best 1-drops(this is all from experience so far with the deck). And because I just don't have the cashflow to build several quality tournament decks, I have played the crap out of GW since rotation. I played a christmas fund-raiser tournie yesterday and my first matchup was against a Bant midrange deck. While he was casting Farseek I was casting Loxodon Smiter. And if he tried to use Azorius Charm on my attacking creature I cast Faith's Shield to counter it. Rancor on your creatures makes Lingering Souls and chump blockers irrelevant.

I used Revenge of the Hunted right after rotation, and it's good. But, a Smiter with a rancor or two soulbonded to a SB paladin swings for 12 or 16 trample damage. Or a wolfir silverheart that is soulbonded to a silverblade paladin gives you an 8/8 and a 6/6 both with doublestrike. Then add rancor. :o)

Here is my decklist from yesterday. I came in 12th, going 4-2 with 6 rounds. MY two losses were both to Naya, which is a lot like my deck except with Bonfire of the Damned and Thundermaws. And each time I lost a game, it was a topdecked bonfire that was my demise...

The Sideboard...[deck]1 Faith's Shield4 Oblivion Ring2 Triumph of Ferocity2 Rest in Peace2 Sigarda, Host of Herons2 Pithing Needle2 Nevermore[/deck]Nevermore is the best answer to the Bonfire problem. And the best answer to Thundermaw Hellkites and Angel of Serenity is Selesnya charm, I am gonna work one more in my sideboard somehow. I had added in the Triumph of Ferocity into my sideboard replacing Revenge of the Hunted on friday night, based off suggestions here on this thread. My last matchup was against a 5-color midrange/control type deck. He was playing sphynx's revelation, so I added in Triumph, and I ended up topdecking it on turn 2, which I cast with the help of the manadork I had. The rest of that game I drew two cards every turn except one, because he got a topdeck terminus. But it was amazing drawing so many cards.Anyways my matchups were Round 1 Bant Midrange (won in 2 games), Round 2 UW aggro(won in two games), Round 3 GW midrange(won in 3 games. This was 10 year old kid who was there with his dad, and he was a good player), Round 4 Naya Midrange (lost in 3 games), Round 5 Naya Midrange again (lost in 3 games), and then Round 6 5C midrange/control (won in 2 games). There was around 50 people there.

Still working on the sideboard. It holds up well against other aggro decks especially mono red and R/B zombies, capable of outracing them to the end with a bit of lifegain on the way. Control is a problem if they hit a miracle sweeper early on, otherwise it's easy pickings. Midrange is where I'm having the most trouble. If I don't race them to the end their fatties usually eat right through me and there isn't much I can do in the lategame against GW midrange.

Thinking of throwning a couple of Ajani, caller of the pride in to help speed things along, the only problem is he competes for the three drop slot which is saturated as is.

Still tweaking the sideboard a little bit, looking to take out Silklash in favor of Garruk, Primal Hunter. Also looking to replace the Militants with 2x copies of Rest in Peace, which just seems better. Only other change I'm really considering is getting a 4th Sublime in place of Deflection, but I actually like the way Deflection plays out, and that's kind of a costly upgrade.

I've thought about what to do with the Geists, you'd rather be casting a Smiter, Ajani, or Silverblade on T2, but sometimes Forest, Forest, Geist is a good backup plan. The haste late game can be relevant too.

Sigarda and Balefire were recent additions to replace Wolfir Silverheart which did fairly well to pop Thundermaw to 9 before swinging. I found that Balefire was an great finisher since no one was truly expecting it to hit the board, and it did well to clear the board when it hit, it if was opposed, I would pop Kessig and give it trample. It was a great finish to hexproof like Geist of St. Traft and token decks.

Anyone else seen Andrew Shrout's Naya Blue yet that took 2nd in Columbus?I think since the deck was thrown together at the last minute, yet it is obviously good since it almost won the largest open series tournament in history, it can be improved. Here is the list for reference

The main deck is something that I think might be improved. But how can we go about this? The deck seems to die to Rakdos Zombies after playing against it for 2 hours last night I didn't win but 1 or 2 games. Should the deck play 4 selesnya charm? Seems like it may help. Maybe some maindeck Bonfire of the Damned? Or Mizzium Mortars? Shrout even said something about needing to fix his "last minute" manabase. So there might be a good place to start. I myself don't care for the 2 centaur healers in the main as I don't see them when they matter.

Would just Naya be a much better option? I found another list that had a much more seemingly stable land base and more options in terms of removal. Its the list Jun Yu piloted in the Las Vegas SCG open.

Going to my first GPT this weekend, and I am looking for sideboard advice....

My deck itself is playtested and pretty reliable. I have played the same deck and keep making mods and have it to a pretty refined list for quite a while now. Where I think my biggest issues are in my sideboard, and what to take out to sb in certain cards. There is a lot of aggro in our local meta, and I really don't have any issues other than GW/UW humans and rakdos aggro. My bad matchups are Naya, and Bant control. Even Jund control/midrange is not an issue really. My question is for the more experienced players and what should I sub out/in in my bad matchups. Here is my decklist with sideboard...